The educational system is here for sustaining an economic and political
order which is creating a wide spread human suffering and environmental
degradation. It is compartmentalized and doesn't educate for life
or emotional intelligence.

The education system is still ensconsed in Victorian and archaic
ways of thinking. Many teachers would love to be able to spread
their wings to nurture and teach their pupils creativity and meditation
in a more wholistic and nurturing way. This kind of education not
only liberates the teacher giving them more freedom and less restriction
to an outmoded curriculum, but of course also liberates the child
to their learning potential.

Our so called enlightened post constructional pluralistic education
doesn't feed the billions of hungry folk on earth, or heal the sick
and dying children. It has been said that something has gone terribly,
terribly wrong deep within pedagogy.

There seems to be a great divide between the educated, professional
and industrial elite and normal everyday people. An academic has
to follow certain prescribed rules and regulations and remain focused
on his/her particular discipline. This means that in universities
there is no real integration between various disciplines and rarely
do scientists and academics see the whole picture

.In fact, science has become a religion for the public and people
accept an objective reality as being truth rather than looking at
more humane issues such as values, altruism, consciousness, conscience,
or truth. These life issues are rarely dealt with in a holistic
way in universities and are not subjects which are developed in
educational systems.

In a way science has become a rather restrictive monolith preventing
true freedom of the human spirit.

Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea that science functions under the
control of a paradigm. For centuries science has been guided by
a paradigm based on the intellectual achievements of Newton and
Descartes, who saw the world mechanistically and reductively, with
its division of inside and outside, subject and object. This has
been overturned by the work of Einstein and his theory of relativity,
the atomic physicists and others who have discovered laws that don't
fit the old paradigm. The new paradigm which is emerging takes into
account the observer as well as the thing observed, and the fact
that the two cannot be separated. There cannot be objective knowledge
without a knowing subject: what we see must be relative to and influenced
by where we are and who we are.

In human affairs, objectivity on its own does not work because
it contradicts what it means to be a human being. A human being
is not an object. He or she is not only a thinking but a feeling
person with emotions, values, hunches, intuitions, sensitivities
which have a tremendous influence on what they do and how they perceive
the world. He or she is both an individual, alone in their own private
world, and also a member of a particular society; and, in turn,
that society belongs to a wider community, the human family, with
which every individual shares common experiences and aspirations
and a common global environment.